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Romney starts last campaign swing in Florida

Jackie Kucinich, USA TODAY
  • Campaign says Ohio event Tuesday is possible
  • Romney finishes Monday night in New Hampshire
Mitt Romney waves to supporters as he walks back to his plane after a Florida campaign rally.

SANFORD, Fla. — Mitt Romney began his final full day of campaigning with a rally inside an airplane hangar, the first of five stops as his 17-month campaign for the presidency comes to an end.

Romney could add an Election Day event in Ohio on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, but Rick Gorka, a spokesman for Romney, declined to give further details when asked by reporters on Romney's plane.

At his first rally of the day, Romney told supporters a better economy was just 24 hours away.

"Tomorrow, we begin a new tomorrow," he said to hundreds that gathered at the event. "This nation is going to begin to change for the better tomorrow."

As Romney spoke, the crowd chanted, "One more day! One more day!"

Romney will hold events in Virginia and Ohio, and finish in New Hampshire — the state where he launched his campaign in June 2011— at an 11 p.m. rally with Kid Rock in Manchester.

After the rally in Florida, Romney taped a video message that will air on Monday Night Football.

Throughout the weekend, Romney reminded voters in key swing states the importance of not only voting themselves but of getting their friends and neighbors to the polls as well. Here in Florida the message was no different. "Look we have one job left and that's to make sure that on election day … we make certain that everybody who is qualified to vote, gets out to vote," Romney said. "We need every single vote in Florida."

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